Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar (Yiddish: קהל יטב לב ד'סאטמאר) is a large Satmar Hasidic synagogue located at 152 Rodney Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in New York City, New York, United States.
to replace the previous main Satmar synagogue on Bedford Avenue, which could not accommodate the congregation's growing membership.
[b] In October 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a whistleblower reported to authorities that a wedding planned to attract 10,000 worshippers at the synagogue,[1] in contravention of regulations regarding public gatherings.
[2] Governor Andrew Cuomo directed that the wedding of the grandson of Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum could not proceed on the basis of a health order that read "...the owners or occupants of the venue to immediately cancel or postpone any event in excess of the 50 person gathering limit.
The Hooper Street congregation was fined $15,000 and the government of New York City placed a cease-and-desist order on the building.